Bulgaria’s women’s national team finished 9 th at the 44nd Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India. The young Bulgarian team with members Nurgyul Salimova, Gergana Peycheva, Beloslava Krasteva, Gabriela Antova and Viktoria Radeva ended their..
At the chess super tournament in Stavanger, Norway, former world champion Veselin Topalov recorded his first victory against Norwegian Aryan Tari. Topalov is now seventh out of 10 participants, with 3.5 points. The fifth round of..
Prime Minister Kiril Petkov delivered a New Year’s address, in which he called on Bulgarians to work for a better Bulgaria together. He made the address on New Year’s night, in the company of 10-year old Danail Popzafirov, who is among the..
Three wins, two draws and a total of four points - this is the balance for the Bulgarian grandmaster Ivan Cheparinov after the first day of the World Rapid Chess Championship in Warsaw. The Bulgarian chess player shares the 2nd place with 12 other..
Bulgarian chess grandmaster Veselin Topalov has been listed in the ranking of the 50 greatest chess players of all time of the largest chess community - chess24. Topalov, who held the FIDE world title between 2005 and 2006 and is a former leader in..
Fourteen year-old Bulgarian chess player Patricie Naymanova became Champion at the European School Chess Individual Cup held in Ulcinj, Montenegro. The Bulgarian chess player won 26 out of all 31 games. In the final rounds, Naymanova won against..
17-year-old chess player Gabriela Antova has reached her second grandmaster title for women and her first International Master title for men. This has happened at the 21st Sants Open chess tournament in Spain, in competition with 346 players from..
Former World Chess Champion Antoaneta Stefanova won the title at the prestigious International Women's Chess Open in the Chinese city of Shaoxing. The competition took place under the Swiss system in nine rounds. There were 34 contestants from 9..
Bulgarian chess player Nurgyul Salimova has climbed to the top of the World Female U-16 Rank of FIDE. The ELO rating of the chess player born in 2003 is 2406 points. Salimova is a FIDE master and needs another 100 points for the title of grandmaster...
The Bulgarian Chess Federation 1928, which received a license in 2017, has become a member of FIDE, Bulgaria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Krasen Kralev announced in the social media, Dnevnik daily informs. The former Bulgarian Chess Federation was..
